250 GARDENING. 



trellis, so placed as almost to touch the south side 

 of the wall. By these means he secures the advan- 

 tages of both methods, and, at the same time, either 

 entirely avoids or so qualifies their defects, as to 

 render them of little importance. 



The fruit is often attacked by flies and wasps, and 

 is best protected against these by nettings. Insects 

 do not appear to do much injury to the tree itself, 

 probably owing to the roughness of its bark and the 

 coriaceous nature of its leaves. 



The CHERRY-TREE (Cerasus). This, like most of 

 our other fruit-trees, is a native of Asia, and was 

 first brought to Italy from the town of Oerasunt* 

 by the Roman general Lucullus. Its cultivated va- 

 rieties are about forty in number,! and are divided 

 by the French botanists into three races, to which 

 they have given the names of the bigarrotier, the 

 griottier, and the guignier. The fruit of the first is 

 distinguished by its hard and fleshlike substance ; 

 that of the second by its juiciness and tenderness ; 

 and that of the last by its comparative sweetness. 

 Subjoined is a list of such of the varieties (placed 

 in their natural order of ripening) as may be most 

 worthy of attention: The May Duke, the Early 

 Slack (a cross made by Knight between the Graf- 

 fian and the May Duke),J Ronald's Large Slack 

 Heart, Frazier's Tartarian, the Elton (another new 

 variety produced by crossing the Grafimn and the 

 White Heart), the Bleeding Heart, Harrison's Heart, 

 the Cerone, the Slack Gean, the Florence, the Amber 

 Heart, and the Morello. 



The cherry-tree is propagated both by ;>eeds and 



Hence the generic name of Cerasus. 



t The Luxembourg Catalogue contains forty-two. 



J Hort. Trans., vol. iii., p. 212. " The cherry sports more ex- 

 tensively in variety when propagated from seeds, than any other 

 fruit that I have subjected to the experiment, and probably is 

 therefore capable of nttainiui; to n higher decree of perfection 

 than it has yet reached."- -Knigh* Ww "- ''Vans., vol. ii , p. 13S 



